User:JamesMLane
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Brief bio
White, male, middle-aged, attorney, New York City resident. Hostile to the right wing and the parapsychology/quackery mindset. Anyone who wants to bother wikilinking any more of that stuff, feel free.
Licensing
For information on licensing of my Wikipedia contributions beyond what's in the GFDL, see User:JamesMLane/Licensing.
Here we go again
For a while last fall, I had links on my user page to the various Rex arbitrations, so that I could reach them more readily. Alas, a four-month partial ban, plus three short-term blocks in rapid succession, have not been sufficient to persuade Rex to follow the rules, so we're back before the ArbCom. Links:
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rex071404 3
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rex071404 3/Evidence
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rex071404 3/Proposed decision
The New York Times Notices Wikipedia
Thanks to Carl for this report on Talk:George W. Bush:
- The New York Times did a story about the edit war on this page: Mudslinging Weasels Into Online History (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/10/arts/10wiki.html?ex=1257742800&en=cc30e2e9087b7775&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland). I guess it's good publicity, but it would be nice if the author had pointed out that all the vandalism here could be (and was) rapidly undone. Oh well.--Carl 03:12, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Good point. The article also includes this passage:
Two days after the election Wikipedia's users began to punctuate Bush's new term. "Is it really correct to put '2001-2009' for Bush's term of office?" one reader wrote. "He could be assassinated, impeached, could resign, die in office ... . Unless someone has a crystal ball, this ought to be changed to '2001-present' or '2001-2009 (expected)' or something like that."
"Yes," another reader responded, "or he might suddenly disappear from Earth in the 'twinkling of an eye.' " That quote included a link to a site about Christian rapture.
Wrong! I was the "another reader" and I didn't link to a site about the Rapture. As per the MoS, I linked to the Wikipedia article about the Rapture. Here's my actual edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:George_W._Bush&diff=7089542&oldid=7088990). "Paper of record", my fanny....
Comment from User:128.206.193.181: I was the Diebold and ESS guy and I gotta admit it gave me a little thrill to know that my throwaway conspiracy theory remark is now one with the annals of history.
For additional context, see Talk:George_W._Bush/Archive_16. Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 21:29, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
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